America is the richest country in the world. Yet thousands of new arrivals to Chicago remain without warm shelter or even, in many cases, coats.
Chicago woke up on Halloween to below freezing temperatures and snow flurries. All day long, the wind whipped and flakes flew and parents debated the wisdom of trick-or-treating. At one point it hailed. And thousands of new arrivals to Chicago — migrants bused here from the U.S. border — remained without warm shelter or even, in many cases, coats.
We celebrate and honor that search with parades and holidays and statues, including one that stands 305 feet tall on Liberty Island. We are defined by that and better for that. “However you feel about anything,” Pete Les, a volunteer from Jesus Chicago church told the Tribune, “these are souls and they’re humans.” And more of those humans will continue arriving on buses, with no coats and no homes and no ability to obtain work permits quickly. And winter is descending.
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